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A New Era for Heavyweight Boxing
When Joe Louis' military career and World War II ended the boxing world awaited Joe's return to the ring, that return being against Billy Conn In June 1946. During the last couple weeks just browsing around the internet and BoxRec I can across that BoxRec has listings of what they call National Boxing Association's Quarterly Ratings. Never realized those existed. You more in depth boxing historians, maybe you can lend some insite into those ratings history and were they ever published to the general public in some fashion like the Ring's ratings in the magazine?
So I was looking at those and looking at the post WW2 NBA and Ring heavyweight rankings for 1946 to see who were the rated heavies at that time beside Louis.
NBA Ratings of July 19 1945:
Joe Louis, Champion
Billy Conn, Logical Contender
Outstanding boxers:
Jimmy Bivins
Melio Bettina
Tami Mauriello
Joe Baksi
Lee Oma
Elmer Ray
Johnny Flynn
Gus Lesnevich was LHW champion and Archie Moore and Freddie Mills the top contenders of note.
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